Caitlyn Clark is the basketball phenom from the University of Iowa who topped Pete Maravich’s career NCAA scoring record, and has twice led her team to the NCAA’s women’s Final Four. The number one draft choice by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, she is doing well, though not scoring at the same kind of pace as she did in college, because in the pros, all of the other players are good.
Miss Clark has had a rough rookie year, being greeted by the more physical play that all of the WNBA players encounter. The publicity she received has been celebrated by many, as well as trashed by many, frequently with the racist overtones that she only got the attention she did because she’s white, decent looking, and sexually normal. That overlooks the fact that other white, good-looking, and heterosexual WNBA players before her, such as Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu did not have the same popularity as Miss Clark; there must be some other factor involved. At any rate, Miss Clark is the rising tide that has lifted all WNBA boats, as league attendance and revenues have jumped, and, after Miss Clark’s shoe contract, a few other WNBA players got them as well.
But this is the silliest take of all:
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My good friends at The Philadelphia Inquirer have, as we have previously noted, been giving OpEd and other space to those criticizing Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins’ harder line on the open-air drug markets and junkies sleeping on the streets in Kensington.
